What Happened To These '90s Playboy Playmates?

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Anna Nicole Smith was on the cover of Playboy five times, her first being the March 1992 issue. In May of that year, she won Playmate of the Month, and the following year, she was Playmate of the Year. She went on to be the face of Guess jeans, appeared on the covers of a number of other magazines, and show up in movies like "The Hudsucker Proxy."  She also gave reality TV a shot with the E! series "The Anna Nicole Show." 

As her star continued to rise, Anna Nicole's personal life became tabloid fodder. Unsurprisingly, the press had a field day when she wed J. Howard Marshall, an 89-year-old oil tycoon, in 1994. The following year, he died, and the subsequent fight for his riches made headline after headline —and Anna Nicole wasn't always depicted favorably. On a 2002 episode of "Larry King Live," she acknowledged that while she wasn't physically attracted to her late husband, she cared for him deeply. "I've never had love like that before," she said. "He truly loved me, and I loved him for it."

In September 2006, Anna Nicole's son, Daniel Wayne Smith, died of an accidental drug overdose. The following February, Anna Nicole died after taking a lethal combination of drugs. Her death was ruled an accident. Per ABC News, following her passing, her partner, Howard K. Stern, said, "I would say that physically, she died last week, but in a lot of ways, emotionally she died when Daniel died."

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